We are excited to announce that the Market Street Prototyping Festival, Pavement to Parks and Living Innovation Zones are now living on the same block: Groundplay! Go to groundplaysf.org to see When Imagination Goes Public!...
The festival will be taking a break in 2017, focusing on the longer term MSPF incubation projects and some exciting citywide initiatives, including the launch of the Groundplay program. In the meantime, our partners at Gray Area and Autodesk have some great opportunities to prototype your creative placemaking ideas. And stay tuned for the YBCA... Read more »...
Download the MSPF 2016 Wrap-up Report: Learn how the festival used community-led design to make Market Street a more vibrant and engaging destination for the people who live, work and play along its path....
September 15-17, 2016 in downtown Rochester, Minnesota....
September 9, 2016 at the Kellogg Mall Park in St. Paul, Minnesota...
Come join us for a peepSHOW Party and Fundraiser on Friday, September 16 at 5:00 PM. Click here to RSVP....
Join the dialogue on community-driven issues and learn more about the ways RYC is trying to make a difference – including the unveiling of their festival project StreetSpeak. Click here for more info....
Nine outdoor art projects made their way to 16th Street Mall on Saturday as part of an experiment to see what the public will do....
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), in partnership with the San Francisco Planning Department, announces the selection of 30 prototypes to be on display as part of the 2016 Market Street Prototyping Festival....
Palo Alto Weekly – Crowdsourcing art festival will give public a say in alleyway redesigns. Palo Alto is preparing to turn downtown into an interactive “creative laboratory” for three days next year as part of a new program to crowdsource ideas from the community…...
Phoenix New Times – After Mesa Arts Center executive director Cindy Ornstein attended San Francisco’s first Market Street Prototyping Festival in April of 2015, she started imagining a similar festival happening in downtown Mesa…...
We recently closed our open call for project submissions for our 2016 festival and have now entered our review process. All project submissions will go through a Jury selection process and chosen projects will reviewed against the Entry Criteria....
Check out these evaluation and analysis reports prepared for us by Ghel Studio San Francisco on the 2015 Market Street Prototyping Festival....
KQED – For three days last April a bit of magic happened on Market Street. This video brings you inside the Market Street Prototyping Festival where even the most troubled areas of Market Street buzzed with energy day and night....
Western Australia’s first prototyping festival April 2-3, 2016 in Claremont Town Centre....
The West Australian – Paul Chamberlain hails from Bristol, the British city that spawned infamous graffiti artist Banksy and one of the most dynamic street-art scenes in the world....
Twin Cities Pioneer Press – St. Paul has called for creative ideas that will help bring the vision for a River Balcony to life downtown. Innovators should answer....
Bay Area residents are invited to submit prototype ideas to make Market Street a more vibrant public space. 30 projects will be selected to be on display during three-day Festival October 6-8, 2016. Submissions deadline: April 15, 2016....
The Market Street Prototyping Festival featured dozens of unique temporary installations that allowed designers to get instant feedback on their creations and determine what designs might have potential as permanent installations in the city....
…a cohort of visiting government officials, nonprofit founders and advocates for the arts spilled onto San Francisco’s Market Street to discover a hexagonal ping-pong table. To their delight, the table doubled as a virtual jukebox, blasting a repertoire of AC/DC and Stevie Wonder songs as they picked up paddles and began to play....
